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Chapter 2: Installation
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Installing Software Drivers
After all the hardware has been installed, you must install, first of all, the
operating system, and then, the software drivers.
The necessary drivers
are all included on the Supermicro CD that came packaged with your
motherboard.
After inserting this CD into your CDROM drive, the display
shown in Figure 2-5 should appear. (If this display does not appear, click
on the My Computer icon and then on the icon representing your CDROM
drive. Finally, double click on the S "Setup" icon.)
Figure 2-5. Driver/Tool Installation Display Screen
Click the icons showing a hand writing on paper to view the readme files
Click the tabs to the right of these in order from top to
for each item.
bottom to install each item one at a time. After installing each item, you
must reboot the system before moving on to the next item on the
list. You should install everything here except for the SUPER Doctor utility,
which is optional. The Security and Graphics Drivers support multiple lan-
guages. Click the arrows to pull down a menu of choices. The bottom icon
with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD.
Note: The memory size reported in the device manager may be less than
expected because some is used by the onboard graphics.
Higher screen
resolutions will take up more of this memory.
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